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CBS
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CBS is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation. The company is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major facilities and operations in New York City. CBS is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network, in reference to the iconic logo. It has also called the Tiffany Network, alluding to the perceived high quality of CBS programming during the tenure of William S. Paley. It can also refer to some of CBSs first demonstrations of color television, the network has its origins in United Independent Broadcasters Inc. a collection of 16 radio stations that was purchased by Paley in 1928 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System. Under Paleys guidance, CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States, in 1974, CBS dropped its former full name and became known simply as CBS, Inc. In 2000, CBS came under the control of Viacom, which was formed as a spin-off of CBS in 1971, CBS Corporation is controlled by Sumner Redstone through National Amusements, which also controls the current Viacom. The television network has more than 240 owned-and-operated and affiliated stations throughout the United States. The origins of CBS date back to January 27,1927, Columbia Phonographic went on the air on September 18,1927, with a presentation by the Howard Barlow Orchestra from flagship station WOR in Newark, New Jersey, and fifteen affiliates. Operational costs were steep, particularly the payments to AT&T for use of its land lines, in early 1928 Judson sold the network to brothers Isaac and Leon Levy, owners of the networks Philadelphia affiliate WCAU, and their partner Jerome Louchenheim. With the record out of the picture, Paley quickly streamlined the corporate name to Columbia Broadcasting System. He believed in the power of advertising since his familys La Palina cigars had doubled their sales after young William convinced his elders to advertise on radio. By September 1928, Paley bought out the Louchenheim share of CBS, during Louchenheims brief regime, Columbia paid $410,000 to A. H. Grebes Atlantic Broadcasting Company for a small Brooklyn station, WABC, which would become the networks flagship station. WABC was quickly upgraded, and the relocated to 860 kHz. The physical plant was relocated also – to Steinway Hall on West 57th Street in Manhattan, by the turn of 1929, the network could boast to sponsors of having 47 affiliates. Paley moved right away to put his network on a financial footing. In the fall of 1928, he entered talks with Adolph Zukor of Paramount Pictures. The deal came to fruition in September 1929, Paramount acquired 49% of CBS in return for a block of its stock worth $3.8 million at the time

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Owned-and-operated station
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In the broadcasting industry, an owned-and-operated station usually refers to a television or radio station that is owned by the network with which it is associated. This distinguishes such a station from an affiliate, which is independently owned, the concept of an O&O is clearly defined in the United States and Canada, where network-owned stations had historically been the exception rather than the rule. In the broadcasting industry, the term owned-and-operated station refers exclusively to stations that are owned by television, on the other hand, the term affiliate only applies to stations that are not owned by networks, but instead are contracted to air programming from one of the major networks. The term station correctly applies to the ownership of the station, for example, a station that is owned and operated by the American Broadcasting Company is referred to as an ABC station or an ABC O&O, but normally should not be referred to as an affiliate. Likewise, a station not owned by ABC but contracted to air the networks programming is referred to as an ABC affiliate, that is. A correct formal phrasing could be, ABC affiliate WFAA is a Gannett station, some stations that are owned by companies that operate a network, but air another networks programming are referred to as an affiliate of the network that they carry. For example, WBFS-TV in Miami is owned by the CBS networks parent company CBS Corporation, prior to the September 2006 shutdown of the CBS-owned UPN television network, WBFS aired that networks programming, therefore, WBFS was a UPN O&O. The stations carrying The WB Television Network were another exception, the controlling shares in the network were held by Time Warner, with minority interests from the Tribune Company and, for a portion of networks existence, the now-defunct ACME Communications. While Tribune-owned stations such as WGN-TV in Chicago, WPIX in New York City and KTLA in Los Angeles aired programming from The WB, a similar exception existed when UPN launched in January 1995 by co-owners Chris-Craft and Viacom. Each of the owned a number of stations that aired the network. However, the stations were not considered O&Os under the initial standard definition. This ambiguity ended with Viacoms buyout of Chris-Crafts share of the network in 2000, the stations were referred to informally as UPN O&Os. Following the shutdowns of UPN and The WB, CBS Corporation, Entertainment became co-owners of the new CW Television Network, which largely merged the programming from both networks onto the scheduling model used by The WB. The network launched in September 2006 on 11 UPN stations owned by CBS Corporation, certain UPN and WB affiliates in markets where Tribune and CBS both owned stations carrying those networks either picked up a MyNetworkTV affiliation or became independent stations. The standard definition of an O&O again does not apply to The CW, in Australia, Seven Network, Nine Network and Network Ten each own and operate stations in the five largest metropolitan areas. These television markets together account for two thirds of the countrys population, in addition, Seven also owns and operates its local station in regional Queensland, and Nine owns and operates its station in Darwin. Nine also owns and operates NBN Television, based in Newcastle, the two national public broadcasters, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Special Broadcasting Service, own and operate all of their local stations. In Japan, commercial terrestrial television is focused on five organizations, the four largest of these – Nippon TV, Tokyo Broadcasting System, Fuji Television, and TV Asahi – each own and operate stations in the Tokyo, Keihanshin, Chukyo and Fukuoka metropolitan areas

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KDKA-TV
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KDKA-TV, channel 2, is a CBS owned-and-operated television station located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of CBS Corporation, the two stations share studios located at the Gateway Center in downtown Pittsburgh, while KDKA-TVs transmitter is located in the Perry North neighborhood of Pittsburgh. On cable, KDKA is carried on Comcast channels 6 and 802, the furthest south KDKA-TV is carried on cable is in Beverly, West Virginia. The station went on the air on January 11,1949, as WDTV on channel 3, it was owned and operated by the DuMont Television Network. To mark the occasion, a television special aired that day from 8,30 to 11 p. m. ET on WDTV. The remainder of the featured live segments from DuMont, CBS, NBC, and ABC with Arthur Godfrey, Milton Berle, DuMont host Ted Steele. The station also represented a milestone in the industry, providing the first network that included Pittsburgh and 13 other cities from Boston to St. Louis. WDTV was one of the last stations to receive a permit before the Federal Communications Commission-imposed four-year freeze on new television station licenses. WDTV moved its facilities to channel 2 on November 23,1952, DuMonts network of stations on coaxial cable stretched from Boston to St. Louis. These stations were linked together via AT&Ts coaxial cable feed with the sign-on of WDTV allowing the network to broadcast live programming to all the stations at the same time, Stations not yet connected to the coaxial cable received kinescope recordings via physical delivery. Until the end of the freeze, WDTVs only competition came in the form of distant signals from stations in Johnstown, Altoona, Wheeling, West Virginia, however, Pittsburgh saw two UHF stations launch during 1953 – ABC affiliate WENS-TV, and WKJF-TV, an independent station. At the time, UHF stations could not be viewed without the aid of an expensive, set-top converter, and the picture quality was marginal at best with one. UHF stations in the area faced a problem because Pittsburgh is located in a somewhat rugged dissected plateau. These factors played a role in the short-lived existences of both WKJF and WENS, although Pittsburgh was the sixth largest market in the country, the other VHF stations in town were slow to develop. This was because the cities in the Upper Ohio Valley are so close together that they must share the VHF band. WDTV had a de facto monopoly on Pittsburgh television, like its sister stations WABD and WTTG, it was far stronger than the DuMont network as a whole. According to network general manager Ted Bergmann, WDTV brought in $4 million a year, owning the only readily viewable station in such a large market gave DuMont considerable leverage in getting its programs cleared in large markets where it did not have an affiliate. Also, NBC affiliates from Johnstown and Wheeling were able to be received in Pittsburgh, the Wheeling/Steubenville TV market, despite its very close proximity to Pittsburgh and overlapping signals, remains a separate market by FCC standards today

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KYW-TV
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KYW-TV, channel 3, is a CBS owned-and-operated television station located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of CBS Corporation, along with CW owned-and-operated station WPSG and several radio stations, including KYW. The KYW stations and WPSG share studios and office located just north of Center City Philadelphia. The channel 3 facility in Philadelphia is one of the worlds oldest television stations, Philco engineers created much of the stations equipment, including cameras. When the station began operations as W3XE, it was based within Philcos production plant, at C and East Tioga streets in North Philadelphia, complete with a small studio and transmitter. In 1941, it began sharing programs with W2XBS in New York City, becoming NBCs second television affiliate, on July 1,1941, W3XE received a commercial license – the third in the United States, and the first outside of New York City – as WPTZ. The station signed on for the first time on September 1, Philco then moved WPTZs studios to the penthouse suite of the Architects Building, at 17th and Sansom streets in downtown Philadelphia, while retaining master control facilities at the Philco plant. The station originally broadcast from a tower in the Philadelphia suburb of Wyndmoor and it significantly cut back operations after the U. S. entered World War II, but returned to a full schedule in 1945. Channel 3 relocated its operation to the Wyndmoor transmitter facility during World War II. It then became one of three stations that premiered NBCs regular television service in 1946, when full broadcasting was resumed, the station reactivated its studio in the Architects Building, remaining there until 1947. WPTZ then moved into unused space at 1619 Walnut Street in Center City, what is now KYW-TV has been based in Center City ever since. The Westinghouse Electric Corporation, owner of Philadelphias longtime NBC Radio affiliate KYW, the WPTZ call letters are now used for the NBC affiliate in Plattsburgh, New York. In May 1955, Westinghouse agreed to trade WPTZ and KYW radio to NBC in exchange for WNBK television and WTAM-AM-FM in Cleveland, NBC had long sought an owned-and-operated television station in Philadelphia, the largest market where it did not own a station. It had made offers over the years for the Philadelphia stations. NBC took over operation of WPTZ and KYW in late January 1956, on February 13,1956, shortly after NBC took control of channel 3, the Federal Communications Commission collapsed the Lehigh Valley, most of northern Delaware and southern New Jersey into the Philadelphia market. NBC realized WRCV-TVs existing tower was inadequate for this enlarged market, in 1957, channel 3 moved to a new 1, 100-foot tower in Roxborough. The tower was co-owned with WFIL-TV and added much of Delaware, the new transmitter enabled channel 3 to broadcast in color for the first time. However, almost immediately after the trade was finalized, Westinghouse complained to the FCC and the United States Department of Justice about NBCs coercion and a lengthy investigation was launched

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WCBS-TV
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WCBS-TV, channel 2, is the flagship station of the CBS Television Network, located in New York City. WCBS-TV is owned by the CBS Television Stations division of CBS Corporation, WCBS-TVs studios are located within the CBS Broadcast Center and its transmitter is based at the Empire State Building, both in midtown Manhattan. In the few areas of the eastern United States where a CBS station is not receivable over-the-air, WCBS is available on satellite via DirecTV and Dish Network. WCBS-TVs history dates back to CBS opening of experimental station W2XAB on July 21,1931 and its first broadcast featured New York Mayor Jimmy Walker, Kate Smith, and George Gershwin. The station had the first regular seven-day broadcasting schedule in American television, among its early programming included The Television Ghost, Helen Haynes and Piano Lessons. Announcer-director Bill Schudt was the only paid employee, all other staff were volunteers. W2XAB pioneered program development including small-scale dramatic acts, monologues, pantomime, on November 8,1932, W2XAB broadcast the first television coverage of presidential election returns. The station suspended operations on February 20,1933, as monochrome television transmission standards were in flux, W2XAB returned with an all-electronic system in 1939 from a new studio complex in Grand Central Station and a transmitter atop the Chrysler Building broadcasting on channel 2. W2XAB transmitted the first color broadcast in the United States on August 28,1940, on June 24,1941, W2XAB received a commercial construction permit and program authorization as WCBW. The station went on the air at 2,30 p. m. on July 1, one hour after rival WNBT, making it the second authorized fully commercial television station in the United States. The Federal Communications Commission issued permits to CBS and NBC at the time and intended WNBT and WCBW to sign on simultaneously on July 1. WCBWs initial broadcast was the first local newscast aired on a station in the country. Its assigned frequency was 60–66 MHz, now known as channel 3, program schedules were irregular through the summer and early fall of 1941. Regular daily operations began on October 29 and WCBW received a license to cover its construction permit. After the war, the FCC re-allocated the television and FM bands, WCBW closed down its operation on the old channel 2 at the end of February 1946 in order to move to a new channel 2 at 54–60 MHz. It quickly began operation on the new frequency, where it remained from the spring of 1946 until the end of analog full power television service in the spring of 2009. On February 26,1951, WCBS-TV became the first station to broadcast a regularly scheduled feature film series, on August 11,1951, WCBS-TV broadcast the first baseball game on color television, between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Braves from Ebbets Field. As were all programs at the time, it was transmitted via a field-sequential color system developed by CBS

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WBZ-TV
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WBZ-TV, channel 4, is a CBS-owned-and-operated television station located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of CBS Corporation, WBZ-TV is also one of six local Boston television stations seen in Canada by subscribers to satellite provider Bell TV, and is also seen on most cable systems in Atlantic Canada. The station was from its associated with the NBC television network. At its sign-on, WBZ-TV became the first commercial station to begin operations in the New England region. The WBZ stations would not move into what was known as the Westinghouse Broadcasting Center until June 17,1948. The station was knocked off the air on August 31,1954, a temporary transmitter was installed using a short, makeshift tower at the studio site and later on the original tower of WEEI-FM in Malden. In 1957, WBZ-TV began broadcasting from a 1200-foot tower in Needham, the tower site is now known as the CBS Digital Television Broadcasting Facility, and is used by several Boston-area television stations, including WGBH-TV and WCVB-TV. In response, NBC threatened to pull its programming from both WBZ-TV and WPTZ unless Westinghouse agreed to the trade, the swap was made in February 1956, but Westinghouse immediately complained to the Federal Communications Commission and the U. S. Department of Justice about NBCs extortion. Approval of the RKO-NBC deal would have potentially made WBZ-TV an ABC affiliate, but in 1964 the FCC nullified the NBC-RKO trade and ordered the NBC-Westinghouse swap reversed without NBC realizing any profit on the deal. WBZ-TV was a pioneer in Boston television, in 1948, it began live broadcasts of Bostons two Major League Baseball teams, the Red Sox and the Braves, broadcasts that at first were split with WNAC-TV. It was also the first Boston station to have daily newscasts, as an NBC affiliate, the station was known to preempt several hours of network programming per day – a common practice among Group W television stations affiliated with NBC and CBS. This was significant, since WBZ-TV was NBCs third-largest affiliate, and it primarily preempted several of the networks morning programs, with most preempted programs appearing on independent stations WSBK-TV and WQTV. NBC has traditionally been less tolerant of preemptions than the networks and had to find alternate independent stations to air whatever programs that WBZ did not air. Despite this, NBC was generally satisfied with WBZ-TV, which was one of NBCs strongest affiliates, as a sidebar, Philadelphia sister station KYW-TV also heavily preempted NBC programming, but it spent most of the 1980s and 1990s as NBCs weakest major-market affiliate. Westinghouse felt betrayed by ABCs decision, and as a safeguard began shopping for affiliation deals for the entire Group W television unit, Group W eventually struck an agreement to switch WBZ-TV, KYW-TV and WJZ-TV to CBS. The Boston markets third network affiliation switch took place on January 2,1995, after a 47-year relationship with NBC, channel 4 became the third station in Boston to align with CBS. The network had originally affiliated with WNAC-TV in 1948, then moved to channel 5 in 1961, it returned to WNAC-TV in 1972. As a CBS affiliate, WBZ-TV airs the entire CBS schedule with no preemptions except for extended breaking news coverage, when Westinghouse merged with CBS outright on November 24,1995, WBZ-TV became a CBS-owned-and-operated station

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WBFS-TV
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WBFS-TV, virtual channel 33, is a MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station located in Miami, Florida, United States. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of CBS Corporation, the two stations share studio facilities located on Northwest 18th Terrace in Doral, WBFS maintains transmitter facilities located on Northwest 210st Street in Miramar. On cable, the station is carried on Comcast Xfinity channels 3 and 436, WBFS first signed on the air on December 9,1984, originally operating as an independent station. The station was owned by Grant Broadcasting, the station originally operated from studio facilities located on Northwest 52nd Avenue in Miami Gardens. The station ran numerous off-network reruns of television sitcoms from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. It also ran some off-network drama series, and classic western, WBFS soon made a name for itself in South Florida for its slick on-air look. It billed itself as Floridas Super Station and frequently used CGI graphics of near-network quality, the station was available on cable in the West Palm Beach area as well, and had identified as Miami/Fort Lauderdale/West Palm Beach in station IDs until the 1990s. However while the station itself turned a profit, Grant overextended itself while buying programming for its stations, in December 1986, shortly after Christmas, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The pressure came from debt with Viacom, which owned the rights for half of the programs broadcast on Grants stations. In January 1987, a deal was made to cut back the runs of the shows that the stations owned and pay reduced prices for licensing them. Even with Grants financial problems, WBFS continued to do well and it added rights to games from the Florida Marlins of Major League Baseballs National League and the Florida Panthers of the NHL in 1993. However, Grant Broadcasting was unable to get out of debt, Combined Broadcasting, a company consisting of executives from the program distributors that Grant owed payments to, took over ownership of WBFS and its sister stations. The company pumped a lot of money into WBFS and WGBS, in 1994, Combined sold WBFS and WGBS to Paramount Stations Group, which sold its original Philadelphia station, WTXF-TV, to Fox Television Stations. On January 16,1995, WBFS became a UPN owned-and-operated station at the networks inception, the station continued to refer to itself as WBFS TV33 for some time afterward, but soon rebranded as UPN33. It had acquired more recent off-network sitcoms in the following and soon began to add more first-run syndicated talk. The station began to cut back on childrens programs, such as The Wacky World of Tex Avery, Pokémon, Sailor Moon, Mummies Alive. by 2002, the station was only running childrens programs during the morning hours. As a result of the merger, WBFS moved into WFORs facilities in Doral, when WAMI-TV became a Telefutura owned-and-operated station in January 2002, WBFS picked up a few of WAMIs former shows, including Fox Kids. WBFS continued to run what eventually became 4Kids TV until the block was discontinued by Fox on December 27,2008 and its successor, Weekend Marketplace, does not air at all in the Miami market

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WCCO-TV
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WCCO-TV, UHF digital channel 32, is a CBS owned-and-operated television station, licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States and serving the Twin Cities television market. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of CBS Corporation, WCCO-TVs studios are located on South 11th Street in downtown Minneapolis, and its transmitter is located at the Telefarm complex in Shoreview, Minnesota. WCCO-TVs programming is seen on two full-power satellite stations, KCCO-TV in Alexandria, Minnesota, and KCCW-TV in Walker, Minnesota. WCCO-TVs roots originate with a station, but not the one with which it is affiliated today. Radio station WRHM, which signed on the air in 1925, is the station to which WCCO-TV traces its lineage and it has always been a primary CBS affiliate since its sign on. However, it also had an affiliation with ABC during its early years from 1949-1953 when another incarnation of WTCN-TV. The stations merged under a new company, Midwest Radio and Television, the call letters of channel 4 were changed to WCCO-TV to match its new radio sister on August 17th. CBS was forced to sell its minority stake in the WCCO stations in 1954 to comply with Federal Communications Commission ownership limits of the time. In 1959, WCCO became the first station in the midwest to have a machine, it came at a cost of $50,000. The station began telecasting color programs in 1966, in September 1983, WCCO relocated its operations from its longtime studios on South 9th Street to the present location at South 11th Street & Nicollet Mall. The network gained full ownership of WCCO-TV in 1992, when it acquired the broadcast holdings of Midwest Radio, during the 1980s, a cable-exclusive sister station was created to supplement WCCO, with its own slate of local and national entertainment programming. This was known as WCCO II, but by 1989, it had evolved into the Midwest Sports Channel, the stations digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 32. Through the use of PSIP, digital television display the stations virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 4.2, KCCO-TV on channel 7.2. The channel will be co-owned by CBS and Weigel, with Weigel being responsible for distribution to non-CBS-owned stations and it will air programs from the extensive library of CBS Television Distribution, including archival footage from CBS News. KCMT had originally broadcast from a studio in Alexandria, with KNMT operating as a station of KCMT. Central Minnesota Television sold both stations to Midwest Radio and Television in 1987, at which point they adopted their present call letters, until 2002, the two stations simulcast WCCO-TVs programming for most of the day, except for separate commercials and inserts placed into channel 4s newscasts. However, in 2002, WCCO-TV ended KCCO/KCCWs local operations and shut down the Alexandria studio, since then, channel 4 has identified as Minneapolis-St. Paul/Alexandria/Walker, with virtually no on-air evidence that KCCO and KCCW were separate stations. Archived from the original on 2004-08-08

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WJZ-TV
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WJZ-TV, channel 13, is a CBS owned-and-operated television station located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of CBS Corporation, WJZ-TVs studios and offices are located on Television Hill in the Woodberry section of Baltimore, adjacent to the transmission tower it shares with four other Baltimore television stations. On cable, the station is carried on Comcast channels 23 and 813, in outlying areas of the market, the station is carried on channel 13. Baltimores third television station started on November 2,1948 as WAAM, the stations original owner was Radio-Television of Baltimore, Inc. which was operated by a pair of Baltimore businessmen, brothers Ben and Herman Cohen. Channel 13 was originally an ABC affiliate, the networks fifth outlet to be located on the East Coast, until 1956, it carried an additional primary affiliation with the DuMont Television Network. On the stations first day of operations, WAAM broadcast the 1948 presidential election returns and various entertainment shows, as a DuMont affiliate, WAAM originated many Baltimore Colts games for the networks National Football League coverage. The Westinghouse Electric Corporation purchased WAAM from the Cohen brothers in May 1957, Westinghouse took control of the station in August of that year, and changed its callsign to WJZ-TV the following month. The WJZ call letters had previously resided on ABCs flagship radio/television combination in New York City, all of Baltimores television stations had fairly short transmitter towers in the mediums early years. But in 1959, the three banded together to build the worlds first three-pronged candelabra tower. Constructed behind the WJZ-TV studios, it was the tallest free standing television antenna in the United States at the time of its completion, the tower significantly improved channel 13s signal coverage in central Maryland, and also added new viewers in Washington, D. C. Additionally, Baltimore viewers could watch ABC programs on Washington, D. C. s WMAL-TV/WJLA-TV, deanes program was the inspiration for the John Waters 1988 motion picture Hairspray and its subsequent Broadway musical version, which in turn has been made into a film. WJZ-TV nearly lost its ABC affiliation in 1977, when the network briefly pursued WBAL-TV just as ABC became the most-watched broadcast network in the United States for the first time. However, WBAL-TV declined the ABC affiliation offer due to ABCs last-place network evening newscast offerings of the time, keeping ABC on channel 13. In 1994, ABC agreed to a deal with the broadcasting division of the E. W. Scripps Company. ABC agreed to the deal as a condition of keeping its affiliation on Scripps two biggest stations, WXYZ-TV in Detroit and WEWS in Cleveland, both stations had been heavily courted by CBS, which was about to lose its longtime Detroit and Cleveland affiliates to Fox. One of the stations that was tapped to switch was Baltimores then-NBC affiliate, ABC was reluctant to include WMAR in the deal, it had been a ratings also-ran for over 30 years while WJZ-TV was one of the strongest ABC affiliates in the nation. However, not wanting to be relegated to UHF in two markets with few choices for a new affiliate, ABC opted to end its 47-year affiliation with channel 13. Group W felt betrayed by ABC after so many years of loyalty, as a safeguard, it began to shop for an affiliation deal of its own

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KMAX-TV
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KMAX-TV, virtual channel 31, is a CW owned-and-operated television station located in Sacramento, California, United States. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of CBS Corporation, the two stations share studio facilities located on KOVR Drive in West Sacramento, KMAXs transmitter is located in Locke. The station first signed on the air on October 5,1974 as KMUV-TV and it originally operated from studio facilities located on Media Place in Sacramento. The station was owned by Sid Grayson and had carried an all-movie format to counter-program against the areas other established stations. However on May 1,1976, KMUV abandoned its all-movie format, pappas Telecasting purchased the station in 1994. On January 11,1995, the changed its call letters to KPWB-TV to reflect its affiliation with The WB Television Network. With Paramounts ownership stake in UPN, KMAX became the first station in Sacramento to be owned and operated by a major network, Viacom acquired CBS in 1999, merging Paramount Stations Group with CBS owned-and-operated stations to form the Viacom Television Stations Group. KMAX remains the local affiliate of the San Francisco Giants Major League Baseball franchise. It also held local broadcast rights to the Oakland Athletics before that team moved all its telecasts to regional sports network Comcast SportsNet California in 2009. In May 2005, Viacom purchased KOVR from the Sinclair Broadcast Group, creating a duopoly with KMAX, on January 24,2006, CBS Corporation and Time Warners Warner Bros. Entertainment announced that they would dissolve UPN and The WB, and move some of their programming to a newly created network, The CW. KMAX, as a CBS-owned UPN station, was tapped to become the affiliate of the new network through an 11-station affiliation deal. The station changed its branding from UPN31 to CW31 one month before The CWs September 18 launch to reflect this. KMAX-TV shut down its signal, over UHF channel 31, on June 12,2009. The stations digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 21, KMAX-TV presently broadcasts 40½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week, the station does not broadcast any local newscasts on weekend evenings. KMAX is also one of only three CW affiliates that produce a local newscast on weekend mornings, alongside WPIX/New York City and KTLA/Los Angeles. The station has maintained a nightly newscast since the 1980s, titled 31 News. After Viacoms acquisition of KOVR, KMAXs news department was merged with KOVR, with reporters appearing on both stations and the Good Day Sacramento set being relocated into the KOVR studio facility

WCBS-TV, channel 2, is the flagship station of the CBS television network, located in New York City. WCBS-TV is owned …

"CBS 2 News" nighttime open from September 22, 2013 to April 21, 2016. On April 22, 2016, the logo was changed to a new numeric "2" for the first time since 1997, in the same font used by WBBM-TV and KCBS-TV, also used since 1997.

WBFS' logo used from September 14, 2010 until September 19, 2011. This logo was similar to the "circle 38" logo used around the same time by WSBK, then an independent station, now a MyNetworkTV affiliate.

WBFS' first logo as a MyNetworkTV affiliate used from September 5, 2006 until September 14, 2010. This logo was similarly used for MyNetworkTV stations owned by Fox Television Stations.

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The CW's original pre-launch logo. At the network's first upfront presentation on May 18, 2006, the provisional blue-and-white rectangle logo that was used during the network's formation announcement in January was replaced by a green-and-white, curved-letter insignia that drew comparisons to the logo used by CNN, another company with Time Warner ownership interest.